The DataStax Developer Relations team has been on the road a lot lately, meeting our developer communities at events like Developer Days and industry conferences. We’ve had so many great conversations that we thought we’d share some of the highlights with you.

Patrick McFadin and Jeff Carpenter from the DataStax Developer Relations team chat about what talks they want to attend at conferences in general and what abstracts they would love to see community members submitting for DataStax Accelerate's Call for Papers.

We asked a few of our Developer Advocates to share some highlights from what has been a super busy, super rewarding year serving our developer community and what they’re excited about for the coming year.

Over the past couple of months, we’ve released new versions of our C/C++ drivers for DataStax Enterprise (v1.6.0+) and Apache Cassandra (v2.10.0+). These releases fundamentally changed the internals of the C/C++ drivers and are the biggest releases for the driver since the initial 1.0.0 release. They included a complete refactor of the internal components and increased test coverage. The refactor has to lead to substantially improved performance, decreased resource utilization, and it has enabled us to better unit test internal components.

In this simple Tutorial we will walk through enabling the new DSE Metrics Collector demo using a DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 6.7 Docker Container, exporting the metrics to a Prometheus Docker Container and visualizing these metrics using a Grafana Docker container.

As a Solutions Engineer at DataStax, I often hear the question from new customers: how do I know that all of my data is loading correctly in my DataStax Enterprise (DSE) cluster? This is especially important when data governance is important or when DSE becomes the System of Record.